A particularly sought-after and mysterious one is red sprites, flashes of red-orange ... remarkable,” co-author of the new study on these "cosmic fireworks", Professor Gaopeng Lu from the ...

When NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed it in 2006, scientists nicknamed Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH 49/50) the "Cosmic Tornado" for ... represented in orange and red, as the protostellar jet ...